As archbishop of Canterbury visits Jamaica, research reveals trader left money to church’s missionary arm
The archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of the work to address the Church of England’s historic links to chattel slavery on a trip to, as archive research reveals that the slave trader Edward Colston left a bequest in the 18th century to the church’s missionary arm.
Colston, who was a wealthy merchant, is one of Britain’s most notorious slave traders and his statue was toppled from its plinth in Bristol in June 2020 andThe work of the SPG included its ownership of the Codrington sugar plantations in Barbados, which had been left to the society by Christopher Codrington, a colonial administrator and plantation owner.
In the 1830s the SPG was paid £8,558 in compensation by the British government for the loss of its human “property” in Barbados when chattel slavery ended in the British empire with the 1833 Abolition Act.Robert Beckford, professor of social justice at the University of Winchester, said: “The gift demonstrates the entanglement of with the dreadful Colston history.”
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